Rising Individualism, Declining Western Civilization

In the final episode of The Office, the Cornell-educated salesman Andy Bernard pensively observed, “I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them.” Danny Kruger’s 2023 book Covenant: The New Politics of Home, Neighbourhood, and Nation, concisely explains Britain’s slow passage from the “good old days” to the chaos and disarray of the present. The stability and predictability of the past is that much clearer when contrasted with the wars, unrest, economic crises, and threats of terror that Britain—and the West—face today.